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From Prediction to Prevention: An Explainable GeoAI Framework for Flood Susceptibility and Urban Exposure Assessment Using Machine and Deep Learning Models

Sustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Rapid urbanisation and intensifying rainfall have increased cities' vulnerability to flooding, posing major challenges to sustainable development. Although machine learning models have improved flood prediction accuracy, most remain limited by their black‐box nature and lack of actionable insights.
Abdulwaheed Tella, Izni Zahidi, Chow Ming Fai, Chukwuma Okolie, Quoc Bao Pham   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biosynthesized silver nanoparticles using Polygonatum geminiflorum efficiently control fusarium wilt disease of tomato

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2022
Nanomaterials are gaining tremendous potential as emerging antimicrobials in the quest to find resistance-free alternatives of chemical pesticides. In this study, stable silver nanoparticles were synthesized using the aqueous extract of medicinal plant ...
Maaz Ahmad, Maaz Ahmad, Ahmad Ali, Zahid Ullah, Hassan Sher, Dong-Qin Dai, Mohammad Ali, Javed Iqbal, Muhammad Zahoor, Iftikhar Ali, Iftikhar Ali   +10 more
doaj   +1 more source

Water for Everyone [PDF]

, 2014
Around one in ten Tanzanians source their water from rivers originating in the Eastern Arc Mountains (EAM). In Dar es Salaam, the main water source is the Ruvu River, flowing from Uluguru Nature Reserve, from which around 300 million litres are ...
Ashagre, Biniam, Mwakalila, Shadrack, Platts, Philip, Schaafsma, Marije, Smith, Celina, White, Sue   +5 more
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Amidst (waste) abundance: world‐making and struggles in hosting a municipal landfill in the Bolivian lowlands Au milieu de l'abondance (de déchets) : fabrication du monde et luttes liées à la gestion d'une décharge municipale dans les basses terres de Bolivie

Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, EarlyView.
In recent decades, solid waste has proliferated worldwide, becoming a pressing global issue. This article explores the role of Indigenous people dwelling within and upon emerging waste scenarios, with a specific focus on involved forms of sociality and ontological contestation. Drawing on the case of a municipal landfill sited on a Guarani community in
Vanesa Martín Galán
wiley   +1 more source

Immobilization of Silver Nanoparticles with Defensive Gum of Moringa oleifera for Antibacterial Efficacy Against Resistant Bacterial Species from Human Infections

Pharmaceuticals
Background: The worldwide misuse of antibiotics is one of the main factors in microbial resistance that is a serious threat worldwide. Alternative strategies are needed to overcome this issue.
Liaqat Ali, Nisar Ahmad, Muhammad Nazir Uddin, Mostafa A. Abdel-Maksoud, Hina Fazal, Sabiha Fatima, Mohamed A. El-Tayeb, Bushra Hafeez Kiani, Wajid Khan, Murad Ali Rahat, Mohammad Ali, Yaqub Khan, Kamran Rauf, Salman Khan, Sami Ullah, Tanveer Ahmad, Afshan Salam, Sajjad Ahmad   +17 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Enduring Allure of Neoliberalism: Individualising Responsibility for Housing Costs in the English Private Rental Sector

The Modern Law Review, EarlyView.
This paper explores how the affordability of rents is addressed in the long‐anticipated reform of the English private rental sector (PRS) by the Renters’ Rights Act 2025. The PRS has doubled in size since 2010, acting as a social housing substitute for some households.
Emma Laurie
wiley   +1 more source

Warrior Cops: The Ominous Growth of Paramilitarism in American Police Departments [PDF]

, 1999
Over the past 20 years Congress has encouraged the U.S. military to supply intelligence, equipment, and training to civilian police. That encouragement has spawned a culture of paramilitarism in American law enforcement.
Diane Cecilia Weber
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The Coloniality of Data: Police Databases and the Rationalization of Surveillance from Colonial Vietnam to the Modern Carceral State

The British Journal of Sociology, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Tracing the early adoption of computer gang databases by the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Department and the Los Angeles Police Department in the 1980s to the deployment of computationally‐assisted surveillance during the Vietnam War, this paper uses a genealogical approach to compare surveillance technologies developed across the arc of ...
Christina Hughes
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating Green Finance: Investment Patterns and Environmental Outcomes

International Journal of Financial Studies
This study aims to investigate the impact of green finance on corporate sector investments and their associated environmental outcomes. The authors collected cross-sectional survey data with a sample of four hundred firms selected from the five green ...
Lala Rukh, Shakir Ullah, Ijaz Sanober, Umar Hayat, Sangeen Khan   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

CLINICO–Demographic Profile and Outcomes of Hospitalised Children With Diphtheria in A Tertiary Care Hospital of Peshawar

Acta Paediatrica, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Aim To determine the clinico‐demographic profile and predictors of mortality in hospitalised children with diphtheria. Methods This retrospective cohort study included 202 children aged 5–16 years diagnosed with diphtheria per WHO criteria at Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, from January 2023 to December 2024. Data on demographics, vaccination
Amir Muhammad, Ashfaq Ahmed, Waqas Naseem, Ale Azad Othman, Mohsin Hassan, Lyaba Atta, Muhammad Tahir   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source